Reflection on Course: Preaching as a Contextual Word by Eric Lemonholm A Reflection Paper 2010 The Core 3 course, Preaching as a Contextual Word, has been an enlightening foray into culture context and its impact on preaching and the life of the church. Our culture has changed and is changing rapidly, decisively, and irreversibly; do …
Revelation Reflection by Eric Lemonholm A Reflection Paper 2010 My D. Min. thesis is on moving toward an “open source lectionary,” taking the Revised Common Lectionary as a common basis, while being open to prayerfully, thoughtfully, and communally modifying it as needed for proclamation in a given context; I want to focus this reflection paper …
Eric Lemonholm A Reflection Paper Presented to Professor Craig Koester Luther Seminary St. Paul, Minnesota 2010 Reading through Revelation in one sitting was an interesting experience. I do not come to this course as a completely blank slate, having recently preached a modified Lectionary series on Revelation, for which I did some reading and research …
(The following is part of an assignment for a course I am taking, called “Preaching as a Contextual Word”) Souls in Transition: The Religious Lives of Emerging Adults[1] is a fascinating study of our cultural context as experienced by emerging adults, focusing especially on ages 18-24. I certainly see many of the dynamics of …
Okay, so this has nothing to do with LectionaryMod, but if you have Windows 7, there is a way that you can mod the start button in the bottom left hand corner. Follow these instructions to change your start button into a Martin Luther’s Rose button. First download the Windows 7 Start Button Changer here, …
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If, as Nancy Lammers Gross convincingly argues, preaching involves doing in our context what a passage of Scripture did in its original context, attention needs to be paid to our context. We need to discern our context, our place in history. We need to be conscious of our cultural and religious context. Preaching always occurs …
Using the Lectionary as a flexible framework of texts for worship, while claiming our freedom to thoughtfully, prayerfully, and communally modify it to more effectively communicate the story of the Bible. For my D.Min. in Biblical Preaching at Luther Seminary, I am focusing on how we can accept the Revised Common Lectionary as an ecumenical …